This chapter contains the best of the regular news
articles that have appeared in The Epidemiology Monitor since 1980. It
contains 48 news stories placed in seven categories including
Controversies, Epidemiology and Policy, Epidemiology and the Law,
Epidemiology and the Media, Ethics, History, and articles On
Epidemiology as a discipline.
The chapter provides many
highlights including 1) a retelling of the fenoterol episode in New
Zealand which raised numerous ethical and public health issues for
epidemiologists, 2) advice to epidemiologists on how to manage the
difficult transition from data to policy making, including a
fascinating comparison between how scientists and politicians think,
3) summaries of legal developments pertinent for epidemiologists, 4)
insights on how journalists see epidemiology, 5) articles about ethics
including a reprint of an article describing early work by Colin
Soskolne who was among the first in the epidemiology community to
raise ethical issues publicly and call for a code of ethics, 6)
historical pieces by David Morens, including his description of how
epidemiology was born during the cholera epidemic in Paris in 1832,
and 7) a miscellany of articles on the state of epidemiology and the
role of epidemiologists, including a series of very thoughtful letters
written in response to the Gary Taubes article in Science in 1995.
Asthma Drug Controversy Climaxes With Government Decision to
Restrict Use
SER Committee Supports Sharing
of Research Data With Interested Outside Parties
Review of Epidemiologic Data on
Breast Cancer Screening Evokes Strong Reactions
National Cancer Institute
Ignores Advice of Consensus Panel on Mammograms Science-Based Recommendation
“Crashes and Burns”
Bernard Fisher Vindicated Researcher Discusses Lessons
Learned
Air Pollution Described as
Hottest Topic in Environmental Epidemiology Today
WHO Report Makes Recommendations
For Greater Use of Epi in Support of “Health For All”
APHA Committee Reports on Policy
Making in the Absence of Incontrovertible Evidence
Pro and Con Opinions Expressed
About the Involvement of Scientists in Public Policy Making
World Bank Conducting Review of
Priorities in Health Role of Epidemiology in Decision
Making Said to be Oversold
Transcending the Rational Model:
How to Turn Research Data Into Policy
Why Epidemiology is
Underutilized as a Tool For Decision-Making in Health Services
Community Members,
Epidemiologists, and Political Leaders: Essential Partnership For
Sound Health Policy
Translating Epi Data Into Public
Policy is Subject of Hopkins Symposium
NY Times Editorial Critical of
Tort Lawyers Who Disregard Epidemiological Evidence
Greater Use of Expert Panels
Proposed as Additional Means of Presenting Epidemiologic Evidence to
the Courts
Epidemiology in the Courtroom
Private Research Group Sees
Alarming Trend in New Legal Threats to Epidemiologists
Supreme Court Justice Speaks Out
on the Interdependence of Science and the Law
Daubert Decision Seen as a Step
Forward in Reducing Junk Science
Colleague Urging Adoption of a
Code of Ethical Conduct
Ethics is Focus of Two Day
Meeting in Birmingham
Ethics Discussed at
International Workshop on Ethics, Health Policy and Epidemiology
Moral Literacy in Epidemiology
Moral Reasoning in Epidemiology
John Snow and the Future of
Epidemiology
“Epidemiology is Born”: Cholera
in Paris, 1832
REFLECTIONS: Epidemiology—The
State of the Discipline
REFLECTIONS: Epidemiology—The
State of the Discipline
A Plug For Epidemiologists
WHO’s World Health Magazine
Devotes Issue to Epidemiology “Facts of Life” Described as
Province of Epidemiology
Epidemiologists Contributing
Their Special Brand of Expertise in Rwanda-Zaire Data Make a Difference
Susser Discusses “Ecologism” as
New Paradigm Dawning of a New Era in
Epidemiology is Described
Epidemiology’s Limitations
Highlighted in Recent Press Accounts (1 of 6) Discipline in “Catch-22”
Situation
Science Article Critical of
Epidemiology Triggers Responses Among Epidemiologists (2 of 6)
Epidemiology Department Tackles
Science Article (3 of 6)
Readers React to Taubes
Interview (4 of 6)
Taubes Interview Stimulates
Additional Readers to Respond (5 of 6)
Readers Continue to Respond to
Taubes Interview (6 of 6)
UNC Epidemiology Chairman Calls
For a New “Macro-Epidemiology”
American College of Epidemiology
Will Host Debate on the Future of Risk Factor Epidemiology
ACE Attendees Reject Motion That
Risk Factor Epidemiology is Bad For the Field Some Say These Are Exciting
Times For Epidemiology
Publication Called a “Ticket to
the Mystery and Drama of Epidemiology” Epidemiologists Called “Illness
Tamers”
The Future of Epidemiology (1
of 3) Special Exclusive Report
Epidemiologists Meet to Discuss
the Future of Epidemiology (2 of 3)
On the Future of Epidemiology (3 of 3)
Pittsburgh Epidemiology Chairman
Links Survival of Epidemiology to Focus on Public Health Problems
American Journal of Public
Health Devotes August Issue to Epidemiology and Statistics
